Marked for Ingvar Jónsson
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Match9 Aug 2027
34 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market9 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vikingur, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: KAA Gent keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Róbert Orri Þorkelsson commits to Vikingur for another 4 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Gylfi Sigurðsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market9 Aug 2027
FH pay $120.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Raphael Kofler falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Copenhagen have kept their man, and Vikingur go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Match22 May 2027
Vikingur throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Breidablik the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Vikingur will enjoy reviewing.
Squad24 May 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 May 2027
Whatever happens, Vikingur do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings24 May 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.67 for the rest of it.
Market24 May 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vikingur they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 May 2027
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sverrir Ingi Ingason is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout24 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Triumph
Match15 May 2027
Leiknir will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Vikingur were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vikingur may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings17 May 2027
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen provided it, and the 9.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 May 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.23, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 May 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Vikingur — 7.81
1 for Júlíus Magnússon, marked 7.81, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match15 May 2027
Whatever happens, Vikingur do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad17 May 2027
Gylfi Sigurðsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match15 May 2027
Vikingur are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
The dugout17 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Market29 Mar 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vikingur they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Gylfi Sigurðsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Júlíus Magnússon falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets29 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Vikingur, and 0 appearances in 7 say he has earned the hearing.
Transfer targets29 Mar 2027
A loan move for Matthieu Epolo is in the works
Vikingur have made the call to Standard Liege. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Nobody at Vikingur will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market29 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sveinn Gísli Þorkelsson signs something — a contract at Vikingur or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Match19 Sep 2026
6‑3, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match19 Sep 2026
Vikingur make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Vikingur have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Vikingur and Valur in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.83. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ingvar Jónsson
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Jon Adalsteinsson, on a 6‑3 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
5 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Daníel Hafsteinsson obliged against FH. 2‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Vikingur.
Match19 Aug 2026
FH punish Vikingur for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Daníel Hafsteinsson will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Vikingur escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Odd had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sporting CP is saying, and nobody at Vikingur is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Vikingur asked and Shakhtar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.